Security Engineer III

About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000 Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next. Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients.
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience.

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

Job Title: Security Engineer III/ Azure Security Engineer

Job description:

• At least 10 years combined experience as individual contributor in an IT discipline with a minimum of 5 years in Cybersecurity specifically and 5 years minimum working in public cloud.
• Awareness of a broad set of Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings, so that you can engage DevOps teams implementing a variety of services.
• Strong knowledge of networking, firewalls, VPNs, Azure RBAC, SSO with SAML and/or OIDC, managing Azure service principals, understanding Graph API permissions, and other security technologies.
• Using third party tools to monitor vulnerabilities in deployed Azure resources.
• Designing, deploying, operating and supporting Azure environments using Azure Portal, Azure CLI and Terraform.
• Managing Git repositories using Gitlab or GitHub and using pipelines to run tests and deploy changes to environments.
• Operating knowledge of Azure networking, Azure firewalls, network security groups, virtual WAN and common troubleshooting techniques.
• Possess troubleshooting skills in the areas of cloud security, cloud networking and Azure private DNS.
• Familiarity with the Cloud Adoption Framework and ability to express critical thinking around its application in mature technology organizations.
• Demonstrable experience with any form of threat modeling.
• Working experience of regularly writing scripts or other automation using a common language such as shell or Python
• Inquisitive and questioning nature with the goal of collaborating to find solutions.

Location: Seattle, WA

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $130,000 – $150,000 USD annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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